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though not very legitimately, that what could not | 
be seen could no ay ve nee pened. But the Peach 
trees had not had t commence any visible | 
second growth. ve was woos upwards through | 
their ve ; t had not told upon their buds, 
h | we forge 
| Hyde Park Elms, hear not untrequently of 
querulous pe in ihe newspaper S, complaining | 
| that gien tree es are ‘‘ wantonly ” or ‘‘ ignorantl 
which, felled by a authorities. 
ught to be thankful | 
= 
wie 
© 
eg pat akis of: such le tte ers 
or th mA are extremely 
fully expect to 
aouodt tnat 
perceived. 
effects of frost, my felt | me Se patanda of men 
are infinitely more serious than when merely in- 
dicated by foliage suddenly killed Thel tter is 
readil pene ; apna never. n the 
anima dom internal 
mg 
injuries are the s tormidatle o of a 
It is not, however, am matter of infere: ence 
that P 
the points; and we had congratulated ourselves 
upon their remarkable hardiness. They received 
a winter pruning, and p usua 
age ke te eg 
groun n e other is 10 owing it. 
ms as it probably was in i ie 
the stem were ki paid and i 
they were ays o feed hee young ie 
asked how 
w 
his by 
the enap e vessel ramen it?” 
hear of a 
killed by "their fall. That ver on | 
destroyed dozen 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE 
y» ito 
nimals more inportant ike oe being | 
whi nat 
[June 2, 1860. 
of the third year, one-third ai ee onk, ot the shoots perish, 
oe E gae o of eight a 10 y 
been pruned exhib wie a few 
situated at the go S the strongest oh Sa 
uch ex 
nd one ma 
ree survive the 
of tl 
mutilation. the splitting o 
i ts death, , yet it le aves ito one- sided, and the portion. left 
Monday would have 
they re oie within reach of its h uge mbs. Pie 
more ‘oie it wold 
abel ight hay 
by its sw inging, the fruit is tossed to a oonaideraile diss 
tance, and is lost. 
_ When the Peach tree is not poe, its Saauaece 
f tl nd the ultiy iva 
4: +} +] 
ape we eied 
of this 
d raught pine cannot pass under the trees, 
and the soil has to be wo orke d by the ea ade. Now 10 
do so m a day as 
because 
ch in 
one ‘would in the same time with a plough pan’ by 
ood cattle; and Ih old that the e great s cret of suc- 
| remedy w 
the st eatest and 
sunk << produce with the least expenditure of 
and m 
ing pent ed 
ie am 
time 
ie out the evil, I now proceed e ihe 
be satisfied t Who could have 
As time ago we drew attention ki 4 
ich with me has proved su stg 1. 
of pruning consists in aiding m0 
Ne tree ee which only weakens its ; “induce a flow of 
p towards the weak parts; maintain, in short, a 
proper equilibriu 1 kps the produc ction of fruit and 
| 
at of young W 
for the Peach Dears on on the one-year- -old shoots, and 
HORT 
their powerless a A was oa manifest. singular experiment ae to have been 
ky be 
it kills them. Such a 
E ad n put, and never Fendi 
satisfactorily. The honest A y is, ‘ We do not 
know. Pigs that ean be said is that „plants, | 
vitality 3 
rance of getting a Pear ox 
In the vicinity of T f Peach trees 
are, cultivated i in the open pta without shelter ; the 
a Pear stock and unite e with it as if 
it had. ven grafted (see p. 360). now find i 
the Revue rte the Pena rig strango tts 
in 
that lif life is isa S something be eyond pei understand- 
ing; ; and that iti is 7 Shut by a varie nry * isd es 
plan g thos 
meg om aeioan the forw: “en kempo- 
s the geo; graphioat positon 
n 
re . LavsovLer from an ot m or 
n Ch ald 1827 b t: amie 
PeTo! ain 1827 bya ta n te 
“ ad ATL T meern 
iruit 
; the soil is a light, 
is a very common are. in the deserts of Arabia, 
India, eae be lartary, and Persia, in uu ose 
deserts i sole ‘nourishment of the e 
. handfuls “of half- ene lime. 
half-rotten dung, and 
Since = 
an be said: 2 a every 
naes fibres, of col 
und in those arid pm 
a their lon athery fib tf corer 
nny and the 
S 
=] 
ct 
ling the s have made shoo m 30 to 
40 inches long. 
f we leave a Peach tree for a yar without pruning 
jean 
it must suffer from the cuttin bike to bring it 
p- 
Meb Aai themselves of it to o 
od e stem o 
in [Alhagi wholeso me food ert 
orras the writer asks us see 
a present mi mischief. 
restore the dead to life. If), 
ere ours we should wait to see et the 
amatos for diaris; oi if they do not recover 
we should replace them by others. 
Ph 
seal ad of last Monday one of the great 
YDE PARK, nen site Lo: r rogans 8, 
slit erin te d ro to the | 
sand of op 
f 
into proper form. In the commence 
giving the branches their right eatin: 
prolonged high Se tie presi 
e 
Water mes a parasite 
and the aes) am Kae an Sores are incap: ble 
dantly by the ane a roots of the Alhagi. 
in the south of Take Tin limit the high f the s 
to about 2 feet, so aat for sev onc lg’ 
mecessit 
“When oe WET 
sharp knife, 
I am no advocate for 
this wa the A a soil which Lais 
e do not 
find ithe eS ae in works on 
. p 1 ‘ 3 4 2 1 m © bs 117 
t take place. 
disbuddin hick 
Supp three 
ears er Fad hehe hes back allowed ial Tibery ia 
a rowth, Before touching the tree 
piy why such and such prea “should | be pay 
rooted with a crash, te: 
Saree strong 
Paw 
ee 
unless indeed the Melon roots follow the Alhagi 
rm which the tree ought to take should be 
sonra pine in view 
lst. I rere by  Tomoving a 1 the xen and 
ards | fro 
fully aa sti ~~ rerio Th 
dsk in E wher 
T, Rn arne se Sa pee 
rely s 
is raed t for wee and 
ers add that i 
common ere it 
e | greedily fed upon si camels, 
leaves yield a sort of manna. 
drooping m the oide ih the principal 
branches. I Eig moi 
aliah to the = se tr tiny ot i ae the tree 
lose its form by the weight 
| The 
an on a horizontal support, it is we preserve for 
the al branches those 
fon layer of erlaid-n-core:ot corruption WE have received, from the Harl.of IncHEsTER| u Dee pret cas 
ithe eat to preserve an appearance of vigour.|® S en of P TENUIFOLIA, which has just a suppress all the exterior branches in order to give 
As to. by which it Was moored to the | P cea ti male seein) for the first time, as far as | the tree a goblet form. On this form the wind acts 
ground, white spawn of dry | We know, in Europe. The tree is now 30 feet high, |g 
rot, and ae raf = pate. We and was sent to Melb by the Horticultural less elast: city than a snl branch, so that the fruit i 
eid. act id thinking of decaying gunboat iety some five-and-twenty years ago. Thej” oe 00 Habla to be shi 
diiad feoi from observation by side tata al aheathing, — are oclleoted. i in. small spikes the size of a 2d. The ra tang cee, it is no longer necessary | 
That all the old Elms in H krk ae Tj each -1 Fank with ai fe to ee A vigour r of the tree, or the flow r of s sape 
oe be. doabted; and their total rounded dentioulate violet er 2 te 
: be a question of ihe pore oe see ofthe eee is the 
| peace T TREE IN N TEE SOUR OF FRANCE, | on the row ede a ie do not dicta, how- 
open oe of eraning of Solitons wet Be eek shower. 
“| Peach tree has a thes which a tree may in pares of 
n ticultnrists. " a attention at TCI — 
gent’s ll remain for centuries the pl = and besid 
ornament of the northern suburb of London, But peeulia of many osos, y th : t i real fee 
Hyde Park there is no hope for them; and i ing kes a ba ciate ber eke a onapo Wae pee- 5 produnas would perish in “sprin follow is 
possible not to feel surprise that in the face} garded as likely toa afford “yon sta wali ke pij p veain e re E coan ich spray and when 
of we peed £ kear ass sas has been there | be obtained; I m erely submit i see ay ee mea It aant e peal bris Ma produces only snl 
or almost a century the managers| ing that ight be useful ti th š phod: ate es hex j 
of the Park should still persevere in planting this ra ran inte - r ion ta oes noe | ead Oak Wonk x il ee nappy oni —— sge — in tee 
species of tree. It is true that it grows fast, | Cultivation is a science of observation and practi j 
and looks well as long as it lasts; so didļ|and not an exact science; and the system which å = aod productio: 
ees adr some localities would _affor rd the greatest pecu gh | Shatin! es an this object I ore all ee 
| el 
Degen ore applying a ponent is ni necessary to ascer- | ing to their position and e phair e arly 
eg n the nature of the evil. Left to itself the Peat eae - less th Ki g ; Pee 
nothing should be apwo w gni red pr se ether or not, pushes vigoronsly for oop isthe ns fora fede. Ti wi 
rane Oth pa a | none tte he two AP aca In in the ie its roe branches n invariable sale: ‘are T always choos : e the mos 
2 Wy aai sent he extremities of the ; Ez at the: nina high and at sho same time is 
| g > y yea e task 1 th 
the upper shoots make less growth, and by the spring brates to five or six buds. proce e pe ne 
